Paris When It Confuses

So why was Amanda at the hospital? And what, if any, is the connection to the house on Holder?

69 responses

1. dem_94 09.25.2009

   On Thursday stef_stone, me and crummyblair went into #7 Holder. It was creeptacular! So we split up and went around to different parts of the house. I went upstairs and was poking around (literally. I didn’t want to run into any cobwebs) The house was pretty much exactly like I iamgined it. Worn down, dirty, tons of spideres, horror movie-ish.

   It looked like no one had been in there for years. I got to the last room on the right, and I could immediatly tell this room was different before I even opened the door. I could smell the linen fresh air freshner.

   I was a little afraid to into the room by myself, but I just couldn’t scream out for help so I slowly pushed the door open. There wasn’t much in the room, but there was enough. It was perfectly clean. Not one dust bunny in sight. In the far left corner there was a night stand, with an empty journal and a lamp on top. There were also several blankets and a pillow in the other corner. On top of the pillow there was a note that said: Leave now, don’t come back.

   By this point I was totally freaking out! I grabbed the note and the journal(Even though it was empty) and bolted out of the room. I didn’t hesitate on my way out except to yell out for stef_stone and crummybear to run. I waited down by the gate for twenty minutes for them, by they never showed up. I haven’t talked to either of them since then. So here’s my questions.

   Where did you guys go and what did you find?
   Who has been in that house?
   What does this note mean?

2. Yori 09.25.2009

   Wonder who was in that room. All sounds pretty freaky. I think there must be something there. I mean, why else would they leave a note saying “Leave now, don’t come back.”? I think we should go back, despite what the note says.

   Regarding Laure, I think Amanda somehow knew about the cancellation of one of the foreign students. I think Amanda knew that if Laure called Vice Principal Thornhill would encourage her into coming to Endeavor. It seems to me like Amanda wanted Laure to come. Now, the question would be why?

3. ArtsyFartsy 09.25.2009

   I think we should go back and leave a note in the same place we found the first one.  Can’t hurt to ask who’s there, right?

   Also - how was whoever left the note getting in and out of that room?  If they were going through the house, there must have been footprints in the dust, no?  Was anyone looking for that kind of stuff?  Or is there an outside-access door or unlocked window in the clean room?

   Sounds really creepy to me!

4. AwesomeAnna93 09.25.2009

   Hal,
   Pavillon Carré de Baudouin is no longer a hospital. It is now a museum full of grafitti art and from what Amanda did to Thornhill’s car…. it doesn’t suprise me that she would visit a graffiti art museum… Plus, she’s always been a big fan of art and stuff.

   I agree with Yori… Amanda must of set it up to send Laure to Endeavor….but why?? idk..

   well we could go wire the room and set up cameras again but i think we’ve been doing that way too much and it’s not much help… whoever lives in that room knows that we were planning to go there s0o i’m pretty sure they’d know if we wired up their room.

5. Kenzi 09.25.2009

   Hey guys! I dont think that Amanda would do that. Prank Thornhill, or anyone. But I never got any news regarding going into #7 (thanks by the way) but it was on my mind all day and I couldn’t consintrate on ANYTHING! So I went to do some investigating of my own. (Sorry I didn’t want anyone to come with. I thought someone might be there and well some people get creeped out a little to easily (run screaming…seriously because of a note?)

   Anyways get this as I was walking up the hill I ran into that Laure girl (she has a REALLY thick accent I could barely understand her.) Anyways dont ask how I know her. She asked me if I had seen a journal because she had lost one. Coincidence? I then went up to the house and checked everywhere. The room wasn’t really that creepy it seemed normal. I went up to the attic where there was a box full of papers. Papers with a weird scribbly writing covering them. One question: Why didn’t you tell me when you left?

   Anyways in the crawl space I found stef_stone but nobody else. We looked everywhere. Sorry that is all I have to say. But there is sure to be something weird about that house. And I want to stake it out. See who comes and goes. Because there is someone living there.

6. crummyblaire 09.25.2009

   Hey guys HELP!!! I am stuck in the basement and the door swung shut and trapped me.  dem_94 I heard you yell, but I guess that the walls are sound proof.  I found a computer down here and a few blankets and pillows.  I don’t know where stef_stone is or how I got shut in here so HELP!!!  I will write later to tell you what I find.  Some food just got thrown down the laundry shot and I am starving. 

   Bye

7. Kenzi 09.26.2009

   Okay so I guess we got a rescue mission in front of us. We cant be sure what will happen so I dont want to go alone. Tomorrow morning meet me at 8:30 in front of my house so we can rescue her. (number8 Holder St)

   I hope to see yah. Please post to say if your coming.

8. AwesomeAnna93 09.26.2009

   crummyblaire..
   if there is a computer with internet access… there has to be a working phone line to connect to..
   obviously, someone would be paying a phone/internet bill to be accessing the internet from the computer.

   
   ***i have a plann.
   1. Mackenzie..we don’t need a group. You and one or two girls that liveeee on Holder Street can go together to get CrummyBlaire out of the basement.
   -While you guys are there, search every corner for a phone or a phone jack.
   -DO NOT SPLIT UP! We don’t need anyone disappering again.
   -Guys, don’t get scared. You can always call for back up if needed.

   2. We need a computer techiee (like Cornelia) in on this. If you guys find a phone…. call Cornelia as soon as you find it.
   -Cornelia, write down the number and do a search on intelius.com (it costs like only $0.99 to do a search..but if it comes out more than that then we can all chip in and pay for it….)
   - Record as much information as you can finddd.

   3. If you guys do not find a phone, but you find a phone jack. Call me. I can come set up a phone really quickly and get the number.

   4. If you can’t find a phone jack, then IDK. There has to be one to be able to connect to the internet.

   
   Whoever it is could also be stealing a connection from someone else’s house which we could actually report to the police but IDK if that’s such a good idea because we could scare them away or make them extremly mad.

9. AwesomeAnna93 09.26.2009

   BTW; intelius.com has loads of information we can get…..

   if you want to just take a sample look what information you can get if we pay for it… just do the reverse phone lookup and type in YOUR phone number….

10. AwesomeAnna93 09.26.2009

    Oh Mackenzie, yep Amanda definitely pranked Thornhill….. that’s a fact.. the guides saw it on the school camera… (All of this info is in “Invisible I”)

11. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Who’s coming with. If you are meet me in front of the house in 10 minutes. Okay?

12. AwesomeAnna93 09.26.2009

    Yori should go with you.. she lives in house number 9….

13. stef_stone 09.26.2009

    Guys I was investigating the downstairs dining room and i fell through a trapdoor and im now stuck! Where are crummy blair and dem?  did they get out okay? i just had time to log on to the newest story and send this off my phone…are they okay im really worried. maybe they commented on this story but i cant read it off my phone! help rescue me!

14. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    stef stone you went in there a second time. Okay Yori meet me in two minutes at the house. Bring a flashlight and a thick sweatshirt. Remember to watch wear you step whoever is doing this is an expert in this area. See yah soon.

15. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Ohmigawd! That was so freaky. First we went in through a tiny window that leads into the basement. I’m so tiny I fit perfectly. But Yori is older then me so she didn’t fit so perfectly. Anyways after forever we were in the basement it was real creepy. We turned on our flashlights and started to investigate. There was in fact a phone jack. But whoever it was, was stealing from somebody else. Let me just add that the basement was dusty. And dirty. Anyways we found CrummyBlair sitting in the corner hugging her knees.  Then the lights flickered on. So we hid and turned off our flashlights. It was Laure tugging Stef Stone along with her. “I should know better then to do this. But I am letting your little friend down here with you.” She said pushing Stef Stone done. She didn’t look the same as she usually did she looked older. In her twenties at least but I didn’t get a good look at her.
    This was perfect though, Stef Stone and Crummy Blair were both down here. So once she had left we came out of our hiding spots. They both looked relieved to see us and as though they had much to say. But we shushed them and looked for that phone jack. There weren’t any though, so one thing was obvious they were stealing power. Anyways once we couldn’t find any phone jack we left. We weren’t about to stay. I am not afraid of anything and it even freaked me out. Anyways we got out and off the property as fast as we could. When we got back to my house a few things were clear.
    1.  Laure was not a French exchange student
    2.  she definitely did not want us to find Amanda
    3.  she herself was looking for Amanda
    Which there were some problems with her alibi anyways like if Pavillon Carré de Baudouin was really not a hospital anymore but a graffiti museum how was the number written on hospital stationary?
    So here are the real questions we need to be focusing on.
    1.  Who is Amanda?
    2.  Where is Amanda?
    The obvious ones but also:
    3. Who is Laure really?
    4. How does she know Amanda?
        5. Why does she want Amanda?
        6.  How far is she in finding Amanda?
        7. What will she do if she finds Amanda first?

16. crummyblaire 09.26.2009

    I think Laure was Amanda’s friend but Amanda told her something she shouldent have like a huge sercret. Now Laure is probably trying to get her and make her tell it or she’ll do something horrible to someone Amanda really cares about. We need to stay out of Luare’s grasp but we need to get more info out of her.

17. themidnighter 09.26.2009

    Does anybody know what year Amanda was born? I just found out that “Pavillon Carré de Baudouin” used to be an orphanage but as awesomeanna stated it is now a museum of graffiti art. Maybe Amanda used to be from that orphanage?

18. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Well then I guess we’ll have to get Laure’s transcripes she was a french exchange student right? So tomorrow I will steal my dads keys break in and photocopy her transcripes. (You know my dad is the Algebra teacher right?) Anyways I’ll do it tomorrow before I go to that psycics.

19. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Uhh…I think she was 16/17ish but I am not entirly sure.

20. themidnighter 09.26.2009

    The orphanage closed down at 1992, if Amanda is 17 there is a possibility that she did came from that orphanage. But what is Laure’s connection from all of this?

21. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Well let me just say she seamed really old when I saw her tonight. She just seemed it though. Maybe Laure was not her friend though. Maybe she went to the orphage with Amanda. Of course I dont know what would be important about a little one year old. Okay get this. I just broke into my dads office, so I can give me better grades and get the keys for tomorrow and I thought I would check and see if Laure had a file how was she doing in algebra. Get this she has no file. So now I am breaking onto my dads computer. And there is no report card under her name.

22. themidnighter 09.26.2009

    Do you think you can get access to some personal stuff? Like her parents’ names,date of birth or any of that?

23. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Yes themidnighter I got access to lots of personal stuff. You see my dad usually spends his Saturdays marking so he can spend his Sundays resting. So one thing was clear I had to get in and out as fast and early as possible. My dad doesn`t wake up usually untill eight if he doesn’t have to be at the school. (Oh yeah and just for good measure I asked him aboute Laure. And he knew who she was. I asked him why she doesn’t have any files on his computer and he says because she didn’t take his class, Doy!)You guys are lucky you have me because Saturday is my sleep-in-till-eleven day but I woke up at seven and had broke into the school at 7:15. Here is what I found:
    Full Name: Laure Amelia Geroux
    Date of Birth: January 24 1992(this will interest you in a few moments when I show you something else.)
    Mothers’ Name: Unknown
    Fathers’ Name: Unknown
    Gaurdians Name: She was reported to move around a lot. She began in an orphanage. And has lived with many families since. Where she was living before she came is Unknown.
    Place of Stay in Orion: #7 Holder St. (She has rented it for the month)
    Orion Phone Number: Unknown
    That was all I could get because the rest was blocked by a password I couldn’t find. He must keep it in his vault then for good measure I searched Amanda Valentino. Guess what I found.
    Full Name: Amanda Valentino
    Date of Birth: January 24th 1992
    Mothers’ Name: Maria-Lee Valentino(reported missing for 17 years)
    Fathers’ Name: James Valentino(reported missing for 17 years)
    Guardians Name1: Anne Marie Valentino
    Guardians Name2: Joseph Valentino
    Amanda lived in an orphanage untill she was three then she was brought to her grandparents. They moved around alot.

    
    Sorry thats all I got because of those stupid passwords.

24. crummyblaire 09.26.2009

    MackenzieC your awesome!!!

    Maybe Amanda left to find her parents and left to the orphanage and thought that they would be there.

    Maybe Laure and Amanda grew up together in the orphanage.  We need to know who Laure’s parents are andwere she lived before this. 

    DON’T TELL LAURE ANYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT AMANDA!!!

25. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Hey peoples so a couple of days ago I got a new lead from Amanda. A business card for a psycic. So today at eleven me, bookaholic and bookjunkie went to investigate. And the place was eerie. There were many mirrors all over the place and a big throne like chair with a table and a small chair across from it. bookaholic was so creeped out she was shivering. Then the psycic came out and sat in the thrown like chair. “Hello my pets” she said in a really creepy voice. Then she motioned for one of us to sit down and I did. She then grasped my hand and clawed at my palm. “You will find what you are seeking,” she said in her voice. Then she pulled out the tarrot cards and told me to take one so I did. “You are in dangour” she said. Then motioned that I was done. I gave her the fee, and then was done with it. But you’ll never guess what she said next. “Amanda…look…where…sun shines!” she shivered then back to normal. She gave her thanks then left again. But when she was in a trance she spoke in a Amanda like voice. I’m starting to wonder whether Amanda Was human. Or Even Real.

26. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    well actually it was more like 10:30 I am not good with times

27. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    I’m not even sure the psycic knows anything about Amanda it just freaked me out a bit when she said Amanda’s name

28. Kenzi 09.26.2009

    Thanks for the compliment crummy blair. I’m awesome but not awesome enough. The janitor just phoned when he was cleaning he the office he found somebody’s library card. Mine. He also found all of the principal’s things moved around. I am suspended for three days, and might be expelled. Plusu now I’ve got dish duty for six months, and laundrey duty for a year. But it was worth it.

29. crummyblaire 09.26.2009

    Oh I am SOOO sorry about the suspension, dish duty, and laundry duty.  Maybe Amanda is a shaman.  Shamans can leave their bodies.  Florida is the sun shine state.  We could look there for clues.  It sounds like Amanda wants us to look where the sun shines.  It never snows there either.

30. Kenzi 09.27.2009

    good idea! I can check while I am suspended. Huh?

31. crummyblaire 09.27.2009

    Ok.  I can come with you.  Our school has the swine flew flying around it fast so we got out of school.  ( don’t go to Endeavor High.)  When do you want to leave?

32. Kenzi 09.27.2009

    Umm…Monday. I’ll get up early and sneak out I have a feeling my parents aren’t that happy with me. And that they won’t let me go, so meet me at the train station. 7 ‘o’ clock am. Fare is 35$ per way so I’d bring a hundred and twenty at least. Oh yah crummyblair I go to Edeaver High. So I have no clue how they worked that out. Maybe its three days after we get back in…or maybe its an in school suspention Wouldn’t count on it with swine flu though. Huh? Great now I am confused…

33. themidnighter 09.27.2009

    Sorry for the late reply but I got piled up with so many homeworks and projects. Wow MackenzieC! The information you just got is really helpful. Maybe Laure and Amanda did go to the orphanage together.

34. Kenzi 09.27.2009

    I think they must have

35. tiffany923 09.27.2009

    yeah…wow, isn’t it wierd tht both her parents went missing the year amanda was born? maybe the same people who caused her parents 2 go missing has kidnapped amanda 2!

    ok, guys, this is so weird, but we r getting new carpet, and when we took the old wood floor up, i found a note. i think it was from amanda. she was @ my house the day b4 she went missing. this is what the note said:
        tired of living in shadow. seeking light.

    this could mean either she is revealing her true indentity, or she is going 2 a sunshiny place (like florida)

    this is random, but maybe she’s trying 2 find her parents so she can know who she really is, so she can reveal her identity 2 the whole world, since maybe she doesn’t know who she is herself.

    just some fresh ideas

36. Emily.K 09.27.2009

    Guy’s, this will be really weird, but My dad works for the Phone and cable company most used in this area- I can see all Calls, in and out of state. Well, just because I got bored, I’m not a stalker, really, I looked up Josh’s phone records.  He’s made 4 calls too Paris, costing him a fortune, and had 13 calls from Paris, all different numbers to him. Maybe that’s way Amanda liked talking about him. Maybe it’s her???

37. Joshua 09.27.2009

    First Off, Emily, Creepy. Don’t ever look that up again. I won’t say anything about it this time.

    And Yes, I made calls to Paris. Looking For Amanda. But i only reach her when she calls me. She seems to always call me from a hospital or a restaurant or a hotel.

    So… Yeah, I just wanted to give everyone my two cents.

38. cobalt_flame 09.28.2009

    Knowing Amanda, she was probably cryptic enough not to reveal anything. She called me like three days ago, but she just asked about Endeavor and random stuff like that. She kept going on about the color guard’s new routine. I mean, she obviously means something in everything she says, but it’s like an oral Rubiks cube with her. She would have said more, but i’ve been grounded from the phone for two weeks and had to hang up w/o even saying bye when my parents walked in the door.

39. Kenzi 09.28.2009

    this morning amanda called me last night of course I’m grounded so I couldn’t talk to her but my mother said “Hi Amanda” in a really weird voice then she hung up. Me and crummyblair are in florda now (Dont ask I totally snuck out) c yah soon

40. themidnighter 09.28.2009

    I hope that your expedition would be productive. I wish both of you luck!

41. stef_stone 09.29.2009

    Really? Amanda called you?

42. Joshua 09.29.2009

    Yes… She won’t tell me much anymore though. Just asked how I was, wouldn’t tell me anything.
    She said she wouldn’t tel anyone, because it was our jobs to find her, she said she wont tell us anything more.

43. stef_stone 09.29.2009

    I find that hard to believe, no offense.
    Amanda didn’t just decide to disappear and make it like a “fun mystery” for us to find her. I think she was forced to disappeared by certain circumstances that we have to figure out.
    Are you sure it was Amanda? That would kind of go against this whole website…. maybe it’s an imposter. After all, we have had voice-changing happen before. (Remember “The Spirit”?)
    Oh, and are Joshua and Mackenzie C the same person with two accounts?

44. themidnighter 09.29.2009

    I think that Joshua and Mackenzie C aren’t the same person. There’s really no connection. Maybe we should ask Emily .K? Anyways, what happened to Mackenzie C & crummyblaire’s expedition to Florida?

45. Emily.K 09.29.2009

    It could be an Imposter, but how wuld the imposter know about Josh? This doesn’t make sense. Amanda is missing. Why woul she call? And what f she’s calling hem for HELP? but she can’t say it because whoever captured her is listening? What if it’s the real Amanda, feeding them false information becaue of her capturers?
    Just a few thoughts. And ask me what? I got confused.

46. themidnighter 09.29.2009

    Oh,ask you about the connection between Joshua and Mackenzie C. I mean there is none,right?

47. SuperChk 09.29.2009

    Hey I just read Callie’s book and I’m with Stef on this one.  That must have been an impostor cause Amanda doesn’t call or text or do anything normal—she is all about communication of the weirdest kind.  No way she called anybody, but it doesn’t mean somebody pretending to be her didn’t . . .

48. em2013 09.29.2009

    So I did a little more research into the Pavillon and you guys are totally right it “officially” closed down when the nuns who were running the hospital and orphanage sold it in 1992. But Amanda was always about the unofficial story, wasn’t she? The place wasn’t actually bought by the city of Paris until 2003. What happened during those 10 years? Who’s to say that there isn’t something else going on at the Pavillon? It didn’t even open as a culture and art space to the public until 2007. The place is really big. I think there could be more going on there than it appears.

49. Orion2012 09.29.2009

    I just wanted to say that I called the number on the paper that Laure gave Hal - 206-888-1579 - and I got Thornhill’s extension. SO bizarre to hear his voice. The mailbox seems like it’s still taking voice messages too, but I got kind of creeped and hung up before the machine came on.

50. AwesomeAnna93 09.29.2009

    Stef and SuperChk is right. Amanda does not call or text. She’s a bit old school. She also did not have a boyfriend of any sort s0o Joshua was not like her lover boy or something. 

    As for Laure, she’s a teenager and was AV’s friend… She’s not some psycho chick that wants to kill Amanda… You guys are def. going way too sci-fi with this….

    As for the records of Amanda found in the office, they could be false. We don’t even know if Valentino is Amanda’s real last name. There’s a chance she made up all of that information just so she can get in to this school…..

51. TrigistheDevilsInstrument 09.29.2009

    Dude. I haven’t commented lately but I had to jump in. As usual Anna, you’re awesome. Speaking the truth. Like truth speakers do. Amanda definitely did not have a boyfriend. Many tried. All failed. Laure however, is definitely a teen, and totally available. Oh la la.

52. AwesomeAnna93 09.29.2009

    Laure issss an exchange student.. Principal Singh asked a few kids from NHS to show the exchanges around our school and help them out. My student was Adelaide Dupont and Elia Santos was assigned to help Laure Giroux. Elia and I sit together at lunch every day since like the 4th grade so Laure and Adelaide sat with us that day. Laure told us she had a friend living here who told her about the exchange program. Laure is also of the 11th arr.(def. France) I also noticed she had a drawing of a family crest on her binder and she told me that it was the Giroux family crest. She drew it herself. She lovess to draw and has a passion for art (just like Amanda).

53. AwesomeAnna93 09.29.2009

    LOL Trig, thank you =]. We definitely haven’t heard from you in like foreverrr. and Laure is totally available though lately I’ve seen Joey Ricardo try some moves on her but no success on his behalf lol

54. Kenzi 09.29.2009

    Yah they called again and this time my mom let me talk. It sounds like an imposter anyways just to be quick in florida we found more journal entries written by Amanda so once we had left we checked them all out. One was interesting it said “Laure, Orphanage, Laure, Find me” Anyone know what this means?

55. cobalt_flame 09.30.2009

    Amanda could just be leading us on. I mean, I had history with her, and she could get the teacher off on some kind of tangent at least twice a week, and anyone watching could tell the whole subject was just a bunch of stuff in circles. It is a long shot, i know, that Amanda would deliberately set up journal pages in FL on the off chance that you guys went down there, but you never know. she could have found out while in Orion, gotten down there sooner, and planted them around where you were going. All i’m saying is anything’s possible, especially with Amanda.

56. Fashionista 09.30.2009

    Woah, the stuff that happened at #7 Holder was crazyyyyy, but it def could not have been Laure the french exchange student. I’m in Le Cercle Culturel de Francais (a.k.a….the French Culture Club) and Laure was with us after school all week and last weekend helping us get ready for the European Fashion Show (and guess who was le directeur? that’s right, moi! next stop, the runways of Paris.)

    
    You can ask anyone in the club - we were pulling all-nighters until Sunday, and Laure was tres tres helpful. (okay so I might need a french tutor, but the fashion show is going to ROCK because of me.) Anyway, my point is that no WAY she had time to visit Holder St. with all the sewing and pinning she did. C’est magnifique!

57. AwesomeAnna93 09.30.2009

    Fashionista’s totally right. Also, here’s something I accidentely left out.

    All of the exchange students live on the Orion Community College campus….

    OCC had like 4 old small apartment buildings where students lived.  Last summer they finished building the new Starsky Towers which is where most of the students now live.

    Instead of demolishing the old buildings (they’re pretty small, only like 3 stories each), they donated two to Endeavor to serve as quarters for exchange students and I think they kept the other two for something else.

    Since OCC’s only a block away, it’s very conveinent for the exchange students. A few teachers also live at the “Spirit Towers” to keep an eye on the students and help them.

    
    So that’s how I know that Laure does not live at #7 holder st.

58. Tiger_Eye 10.01.2009

    OK I know this isn’t really the topic of this entry, but does anyone else think that whatever happened to Callie’s mom also happened to Amanda?

59. Yori 10.01.2009

    Hi guys, sorry I haven’t commented in pretty much all week. Long story and you don’t want to know. Anyhow, like MackenzieC it was a girl who was in the house and who locked CrummyBlair on the basement. It looked kinda like Laure but I didn’t see her clearly because my glasses had fallen on the floor for trying to hid so quickly. It was so dusty there I putting them on would’ve made my vision even blurrier.

    I don’t think it was Laure though, because she didn’t have an accent like Laure. I wonder who she was and why she did what she did, though. Also- sorry, gotta go!

60. stef_stone 10.01.2009

    Hello everyone.
    I would like to announce my retirement from the Amanda Project. I absolutely love this website, so this is going to be very hard for me, but I feel as if too many things are happening too fast. (Rather ironic, considering my previous posts, I know). Frankly, its hard to keep up anymore and I feel as if, with all the new information being “discovered”, this is just going all different directions. Some people post a LOT with many different ideas and things they have found out which I believe has caused this. (Not to name names…well, you know who you are.) I, personally, feel as if its very unlikely that Amanda would actually call one of the members, and if she did, that would kind of render this whole project obsolete, wouldn’t it?
    I would like to credit the administrators for doing a wonderful job and encourage all of you to keep the Amanda Project going, even if I can’t keep up anymore. I felt that I should post this because I owed it to all of you that are working so hard to find Amanda.
    Best of luck, and please continue with your search:
    -Stefanie Stone

61. Sparrrow 10.01.2009

    Well, I just had an interesting if a little disturbing discovery. While I was at the library doing research for my essay on Marie Antionett and her role in the French Revolution for Modern World (ironic no?) I had pulled a book off the shelf on the subject when I opened it a bunch of purple post-it notes fell out. Curious, I picked them up and identified the handwritting to be Amanda’s. (Well with us being former peer editing partners in English I should hope that I should be able to recognize it) They were all filled with little notes on the book and such, nothing of great importance, but then I found a yellowing crumpled note with the words “Sous la guillotine, jusqu’ a la fin” scrawled on it, below written in English it said “You cannot escape the history you are doomed to repeat.” 

    So after making a mad dash to one of the library’s computers Iand discovered that the first phrase which turned out to be French (shocker) loosely translated meant “under the guillotine until the end”. (Hurray for online translators!)

    Was this somehow a threat or something? Possibly from someone who may have been a bit obsessed with Amanda?  Let’s see…who do we know of that’s from France and knows Amanda? The answer: Laure!

    Honestly, I’m still freaked out at the moment but if someone would be willing to see if Laure’s handwritting matches the one on the note?

62. aoife_oreilly 10.02.2009

    Hi I have just joined. This is iintriguing!!!

63. Nerd 10.10.2009

    hi, ive just joined too.

    i just think its weird that both Laure and Amanda were born on the same day, that they both were in an orphanage, Amandas parents went missing and Laures parents are unknown of, Laure arrived pretending to be a french exchange student, claiming to have met Amanda before and to have become friends but Amanda has mysteriously disappeared! And now, Laure seems to want to find Amanda but, is lying about where she lives! dont you think that its strange? Laure is definetly tied in here somewhere, theres too much proof for all these things to simply be coincidences, dont u think?

64. girl16 12.24.2009

    um not to sound stupid or anything but who is this Laure chick?  i know shes a foreign exchange student..?

65. chmivita1234 12.25.2009

    I think that Amanda was at the hospital becuasae her mom was in the hospital, or Callie’s Mom was in the hospital….... and she was visiting!

66. Kenzi 12.26.2009

    Amandas mom has been missing for seventeen years…dontcha think people would know if she was checked into a hospital?

67. Fox 02.02.2010

    Hey I’m new here and just catching so I havn’t been posting but I had to say that this may sound obvious but no one suggested it. They could possibly be twins, hello born on the same day with no parents…Laura might want to reconnect with her sister or something along those lines. Idk just thought I should throw that out there.

68. blondw/brain 04.20.2010

    a few things to note:
    first of all, newbies: Read ALL the stories and comments before jumping to conclusions <Removed by Cornelia’s minions>
    Second: are you sure the foreign exchange students are in apartment buildings? It seems like an odd set up to me. My family hosted a student from Thailand last year- that means she lived with us- Most programs work that way.
    Thirdly, why don’t we ask Avery some questions- she said she was Amanda’s older sister
    And finally, Laure was obviously got something against Amanda- and what was she really doing in that house? Thanks for your time!

69. AwesomeAnna93 04.20.2010

    blonde w/ brains;; hosting is a totally different program. the exchange program between orion and france is like a study abroad program and the students live in dormitories rather than homes.

    kenzi, we aren’t sure how long amanda’s mom has been missing and if she is even really missing.